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|  | | El Tigre II, The saga continues
El Tigre, now a wealthy banker and ranch owner, must again fight lawlessness but in the changing mores of society both in California and in von Bismark's Prussia.
Johann Heinrich von Manfred, a former Prussian militarist known as El Tigre for legendary action in the developing southwestern United States, is now a wealthy banker and ranch owner. Because of problems resulting from misunderstandings about the treaty of Guadalupe Hildago, he must defend his property first by gun and sword, followed by more politic means dictated by the changing mores of society. Coincidentally, he must deal with bank problems, and no sooner prevails than he must return to Prussia to aid his sister whose estate is being threatened by politica | |  | | El Tigre,
A young Prussian aristocrat, enters the Military Academy. An unfortunate incident requires him to leave to become involved in strife in both the old and new world.
In accord with the times, as a Prussian aristocrat, Johann Heinrich von Manfred enters the i>Kriegsakademie /i>at 10 years of age. An unfortunate occurrence necessitaes his flight from school. He aids a Gypsy band while journeying through France and the Pyrenees to join in the fight to put Carlos, the pretender on the Spanish throne. With the death of the general, who is his mentor, he must again flee. He arrives in the New World where he aids Houston to liberate Texas and stays on as a ranger until Texas runs out of money. He moves on to 'Old California' where he saves the life and hacie | |  | | LOBO, The strange Life of William Jameson
A young farm boy survives cruelty on the Oregon Trail, slavery with maurauding Indians, liberation and a journey to England to live with aristocracy and gain an education at Eton. Returning to America, he becomes a fencing master with a beautiful Creole paramour, survies the Civil War and becomes a leading figure in the Reconstruction Era
Young William Jameson's family sets out for Oregon in the mid 19th century only to be massacred by Cheyenne. He survives with the band until liberated by a visiting English nobleman, who takes him to London to be educated at Eton during the upheavel of the Industrial Revolution. He is forced into a dual and must flee. Returning to America, he becomes a fencing master in New Orleans with a beautiful Creole paramour. The Civil War interupts normal life and he flees to the Bayou country, venturing forth to aid the Confederacy in repelling the Union's Westen Campa | |  | | The Elymais Coin
A Private Investigator must stop the Elymais Coin from being used as part of a subversive plot against the United States - from its most vulnerable point - the presidency.
A wealthy coin collector hires Cy Lane to find and return the 3000-year-old Elymais coin but Cy finds he isn't the only one seeking its possession. He first encounters a shadowy Middle Easterner, then, a beautiful Russian woman who offers aid in obtaining the coin for a price. Appearance of a member of the Russian Maffia requires them to use a circuitous route to Europe where the shadowy Middle Easterner reappears and a murder complicates the search. The chase then follows a rabidly anti-Muslim bishop's acolyte to Andora and Morocco where al Qaida and the CIA |
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The House of Green Waters
by Edward Patterson
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 Fourth Book in the Southern Swallow Series finds the Academician Li K'ai-men in exile on Hai-nan Island. China has a new invasion threat. A showdown between ingenuity and technology explodes as the Sung Dynasty tries to preserve itself. |
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